Congress gave the FTC power to enact rules so that Congress doesn't have to fiddle with every single little complaint or item over all of society. What do you think FTC stands for?
Here's the Congressional passed statutes regarding the FTC [1].
In particular note that 15 U.S.C 41-58 includes that the FTC "is empowered... to .. prescribe rules defining with specificity acts or practices that are unfair or deceptive, and establishing requirements designed to prevent such acts or practices" among many other similar things.
The phrase "unfair or deceptive" occurs 56 times in the FTC charter. Go read it.
Well what is the actual law here? What made this fair for decades, according to the law, and suddenly unfair and deceptive today even though there has been no actual change to the law? (I would argue that it was unfair and deceptive all along, but that's not what the law said). Laws were meant to be something more permanent and reliable than something which can just be changed on the whim of some bureaucrat.
Here's the Congressional passed statutes regarding the FTC [1].
In particular note that 15 U.S.C 41-58 includes that the FTC "is empowered... to .. prescribe rules defining with specificity acts or practices that are unfair or deceptive, and establishing requirements designed to prevent such acts or practices" among many other similar things.
The phrase "unfair or deceptive" occurs 56 times in the FTC charter. Go read it.
[1] https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/statutes